Apple: Apple releases iTunes 12.1 with OS X Notification Center widget, syncing improvements, and more

Apple releases iTunes 12.1 with OS X Notification Center widget, syncing improvements, and more


Apple has released a new update for iTunes on OS X that introduces support for a Notification Center widget. The widget will allow users to control their music and buy songs from iTunes Radio directly from the system-wide panel.
iTunes 12.1 also includes a “quick tour” feature that runs on the app’s second launch. It’s the same quick tour that has been available on Apple’s website since last year, but it is now included natively in the app to help users get acclimated to the new design.


The update also improves syncing performance for iOS devices. You can get the iTunes 12.1 from the Updates tab of the Mac App Store now.

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1. Avenged110 says: I like how the most important part of the update is basically a footnote…
   
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   • Mike Beasley says: I’d say syncing performance improvement is hardly the most important part of the update. It likely won’t even be a noticeable change for most people.
     
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     • Avenged110 says: I know I just think its funny how literally the only useful thing they can do for iTunes is make it suck less and they treat that like it’s not important.
       
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     • Avenged110 says: I’m not criticizing/making fun of anything about the article. Just Apple/iTunes
       
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     • Mike Beasley says: Oh gotcha haha. Well I think they like to downplay it because they tend to think their software is very stable and great and there are no problems at all lol
       
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   • Martin Vyderna (@martinvyderna) says: I disagree. Wireless syncing problems have been a problem since Apple introduced wireless syncing in iTunes 10.5.
     
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2. Edison Wrzosek says: Looks like there’s a small problem with this update… Code signing doesn’t appear to be fully valid, which results for constant prompts on each startup of iTunes if your OS X application firewall is running.
   Attempting to code sign the app via Terminal renders the following errors:
   codesign -vvv /Applications/iTunes.app
   â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/iAdCore.framework/Versions/Current/.
   â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/iAdCore.framework/Versions/Current/.
   â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/iPodUpdater.framework/Versions/Current/.
   â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/iPodUpdater.framework/Versions/Current/.
   â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesASUHelper
   â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesASUHelper
   â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app
   â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app
   â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_dsp.3.06.0.dylib
   â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_dsp.3.06.0.dylib
   â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_link.3.06.0.dylib
   â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_link.3.06.0.dylib
   â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_manager.3.06.0.dylib
   â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_manager.3.06.0.dylib
   â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_musicid.3.06.0.dylib
   â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_musicid.3.06.0.dylib
   â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_submit.3.06.0.dylib
   â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_submit.3.06.0.dylib
   â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/PlugIns/TodayExtension.appex
   â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/PlugIns/TodayExtension.appex
   /Applications/iTunes.app: a sealed resource is missing or invalid
   file added: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts/MyriadSetPro-bold.ttf
   file added: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts/MyriadSetPro-bolditalic.ttf
   file added: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts/MyriadSetPro-medium.ttf
   file added: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts/MyriadSetPro-mediumitalic.ttf
   file added: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts/MyriadSetPro-semibold.ttf
   file added: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts/MyriadSetPro-semibolditalic.ttf
   file added: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts/MyriadSetPro-text.ttf
   file added: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts/MyriadSetPro-textitalic.ttf
   file added: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts/MyriadSetPro-thin.ttf
   file added: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts/MyriadSetPro-thinitalic.ttf
   
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   • Mike Beasley says: Apple’s wonderful QA process at work again.
     
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   • Dean Lubaki says: Maybe there’s an error on your update file because my firewall is running and I have no issues.
     
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     • Edison Wrzosek says: I tried to trash the related plist file for the firewall and restart the machine, and it works fine for the first launch of iTunes, but subsequent loads of iTunes results in Deny or Allow incoming prompts.
       I have several other apps that register in the Application Firewall, and they all work normally, without repeated prompts…
       I’ve submitted a report to Apple, so let’s see if anything is mentioned about this. Hope it’s not my system!
       
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   • Edison Wrzosek says: It also looks like this is impacting ARDAgent.app, part of the Remote Desktop monitoring software, after it got updated to 3.8 the other day, sigh…
     
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   • Edison Wrzosek says: No I’m not talking to myself… Here’s the kicker, have another brand-new MBA on my bench with 10.10.2, and iTunes 12.1 was auto-updated, yet that one has no issues with the firewall prompting for incoming connections, which I can confirm is related to activating Home Sharing in iTunes.
     This is fun.
     
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   • Kawaii Gardiner says: No problems here:
     Last login: Fri Jan 30 16:54:30 on console
     Kawaiis-MacBook-Pro:~ kawaiigardiner$ codesign -vvv /Applications/iTunes.app
     â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/iAdCore.framework/Versions/Current/.
     â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/iAdCore.framework/Versions/Current/.
     â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/iPodUpdater.framework/Versions/Current/.
     â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/iPodUpdater.framework/Versions/Current/.
     â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesASUHelper
     â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesASUHelper
     â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app
     â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app
     â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_dsp.3.06.0.dylib
     â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_dsp.3.06.0.dylib
     â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_link.3.06.0.dylib
     â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_link.3.06.0.dylib
     â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_manager.3.06.0.dylib
     â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_manager.3.06.0.dylib
     â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_musicid.3.06.0.dylib
     â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_musicid.3.06.0.dylib
     â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_submit.3.06.0.dylib
     â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/libgnsdk_submit.3.06.0.dylib
     â€"prepared:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/PlugIns/TodayExtension.appex
     â€"validated:/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/PlugIns/TodayExtension.appex
     /Applications/iTunes.app: valid on disk
     /Applications/iTunes.app: satisfies its Designated Requirement
     Kawaiis-MacBook-Pro:~ kawaiigardiner$
     
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3. Giovanni Longo says: Probably the Quality control in Apple is made by Mickey Mouse, lately.
   I notice evident stuttering when you scroll the pages (album, playlist, everywhere). Very evident and very nosy, the images are very shaky…
   I have no words… (rMBP Late 2013).
   
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4. Israel Anderson (@israelanderson) says: I don’t WANT to aclimate to complexity. Apple is supposed to be about simplification, so go back to how it was or let 3rd parties control our music, because this is shit.
   
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